Is Ubuntu good?

Posted 24 July 2011 - 05:54 PM

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Hi im just looking for a good and safe linux distribution,i mean completely customizable , i wwas readin about privacy on ubuntu's website and it seems not reliable. i tried backtrack,and it sucks, should i try blackbuntu ?

If you're too noob for something as hardcore as Arch, go for CrunchBang.

But to answer your question, I don't really like the main *buntu releases because they're really bloated and annoying now, and too much of the layout is "forced". By forced I mean a massive pain in the ass to get rid of or move.

Posted 24 July 2011 - 09:57 PM

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But to answer your question, I don't really like the main *buntu releases because they're really bloated and annoying now, and too much of the layout is "forced". By forced I mean a massive pain in the ass to get rid of or move.

Arch and Ubuntu are equally minimal and equally fast out of the box, infact, Ubuntu has a slight advantage over Arch in performance. I'm pretty sick of everyone praising arch, as Ubuntu (the distro everyone hates and calls 'Vista') is faster.

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Posted 25 July 2011 - 02:28 PM

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Try Gentoo. It is quite similar to Arch in term of installation. Install things which are required only, therefore, no "extras". They have a very good documentation at their site to guide you throughout the installation. Has a very good package manager (Portage).

Posted 25 July 2011 - 03:42 PM

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Try Gentoo. It is quite similar to Arch in term of installation. Install things which are required only, therefore, no "extras". They have a very good documentation at their site to guide you throughout the installation. Has a very good package manager (Portage).

If you've never used any Linux before I would highly recommend not starting with Gentoo. It's extremely customizeable but is built for people who are very familiar with *nix who want to really hard-core customize the distribution to fit their needs. They do provide a very good walk-through though so you could try it, but I wouldn't advise it unless you've got a hefty amount of *nix knowledge under your belt.

But to answer your question, I don't really like the main *buntu releases because they're really bloated and annoying now, and too much of the layout is "forced". By forced I mean a massive pain in the ass to get rid of or move.

Agreed. Not an Ubuntu fan either.

Personally, I'd recommend giving Debian a try... but then I'm a bit biased as I've pretty much always used Debian I've tried a lot of the flavors out there, but I love Debian. It's customizable, not as much as others I suppose (like Gentoo) but you can do A LOT with it.

Good luck.

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Posted 26 July 2011 - 11:26 AM

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It's the most reliable Linux distribution I've used. The whole operation is overseen by a benevolent billionaire, which ensures security of finances. The wireless software connects without lengthy resort to ifconfig, and ndiswrapper, and the bluetooth drivers, which are a notorious hassle on other distributions, are fully configured. It's as reliable as Windows without sacrificing control over the innards of the system. Many ubergeeks are disdainful because they feel that it does too much for you and thus prevents you from understanding how your system works. There's some truth to this, although its not of concern to the 99.999% of computer users who don't care about the syntactic structure of the bash shell. But if you are one of the people who want to learn about the innards, you will make more progress in a few maddening days of trying to install desktop software and wireless drivers to Slackware than you would in a year of Ubuntu.

I'm a little wary of some of the steps that Canonical have taken recently. The ditching of Gnome for Unity reeked of that hubristic kill the whale reinvent the wheel mentality.

Posted 26 July 2011 - 01:01 PM

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As far as I know, Ubuntu is almost goot OS for anybody except those who likes more clean and stable os. For that I'd recommend Debian. Otherwise, it's fairly secure, fairly more or less stable, except for few bugs that may be present in some betas. If you know how to maintain latest software packages and remove packages you don't use, it's good distro for you. I have it installed with dualboot with Windows on my PC though.

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Posted 26 July 2011 - 10:57 PM

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Aaaaaaaaand that's why you can build Gnome yourself

Don't get me wrong, I used Ubuntu for a bit, but when everything is click and play like Windows, it doesn't make for much of a learning curve. If you wanna get into *nix, start with Ubuntu then move off to another distro (don't ask for suggestions, google around and make your own choices, otherwise you'll be stuck trying to figure something out that you might not even want to use to begin with ).

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One thing I <3 about Ubuntu is their vanilla patches, they have more-or-less fixed Xorg so it doesn't crash like it does on every other fucking distro.

I'm running the worlds most generic hardware and I would get those crashes on every other distro EXCEPT ubuntu. That's why I ping out every couple weeks, it's because Xorg completely freezes (keyboard and all) and I hasta yoinc the plug out of the wall.

I m not much familier at *nix os,but,i started to expierence many distors out there and i specially like igolware 2.0 ubuntu 10.10 version,i realy liked it's speed is very reasonable,coz when i start windows os in the asme laptop my laptop sounds a bit,abnd when i switch to my ubuntu,i does't have any sound just smooth cpu usage ,and it has realy good looking graphics.

but,i want to ask you : how could i download updates and softwares to my ubuntu and then update it offline? without connecting to internet? is there any way?
and,i actulay want to use it for,c,java,photoshope ,joomla, and audio/video that would be enogh for me to e in love with my linux?

Posted 16 January 2012 - 07:33 AM

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Ubuntu used to be great, but with the onslaught of Unity it's turned counter productive, it's turning into a netbook OS, which is good for some, but if you're a programmer who lives and breaths having multiple windows open, wants the stability and updatability of Ubuntu, I recommend Linux Mint

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Posted 25 November 2012 - 02:50 AM

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Better do not take any opinions, there will always be some fan boys which will tell you to use XX distribution. The best option would be to try this and that yourself and decide whichever you like the most.